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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Chicken Soup /Kozhi Soup

This is our home style of making chicken soup...Works well for our colds...Adjust the spice level to your taste...The measurements given will provide medium level spicy soup...This is a nice aromatic soup, which also tastes great...Give it a try...Enjoy hot...

Ingredients

Ingredient

Measurement

Chicken

1/4 lb

Turmeric powder

1 tsp

Salt

to taste

Gingelly oil

1 tblsp

To grind

Ingredient

Measurement

Pepper

1 tsp

Jeera

1 tsp

Ginger

2 inch piece

Garlic

2 pods

Shallots

2

Mint

1 sprig

Curry leaves

1 sprig

Method

Grind together pepper,jeera,ginger,garlic,shallots,mint and curry leaves into a smooth paste....

Heat a pressure pan / vessel with some gingelly oil, add the ground paste, turmeric and salt and fry for a minute...

Then add the cleaned chicken pieces and fry it a little...

Then add 2 cups of water(add as u wish),and pressure cook for 2 whistlesand in simmer for 5 minutes....

Let the pressure settle by itself and then open the cooker....Add required pepper and salt...Garnish with cilantro and little gingelly oil...